Omaha daily bee., 1887-04-20
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NIGHT EDITOR No 20.
MINOR MENTION.


The city fathers gather this evening.
George w. Thompson e. Co.. real estate
There are only sixteen prisoners in the
county Jail.
The popular resort is The Manhattan"
41S Broadway. Rudio & Yenawine.
The Odd Fellows will give their ami
versary ball in Temple hall on the 10Th.
Silver City has just organized post of
the q. A. r., which starts in with en-.
thusasm.
The Knights OF Labor ball in Temple
hall tomorrow evening promises to be
largely attended.
WOrkmen are putting in new curbing
on MINISTER street and otherwise getting
ready for the new paving.
II you want to cheer the police buy
ticket tor their annual benefit ball to be
given in the Temple hall May 5.
Justice Barnett has tied the matrimo-
nial moose joining &. Kemblc and Miss
Elizabeth Skelly, both of this city.
Sherman & Marsh have commenced u
suit against the city to enforce the pay.
ment Of 800 general fund warrants.
Leave to marry was yesterday granted
G. Mowry, of Fontapellc, Adair county,
Iowa, and Carrie rriplett, of this city.
Lund Il Davis are preparing to enlarge
their livery stable. The front is to be
sixty feet and the building is to be raised
another story.
Sport Miller was yesterday assessed
for the seventyeighth time for being
drunk, and as usual went his way on the
promise of paying in the sweet by-and-by.
Property owners are signing petition
for paving Willow avenue to Eighth
street, and Eighth street to Broadway.
This would make complete circuit of
Pearl street.
j. K. Withcrow has let the contract for
his new residence on Second avenue. The
house will cost $500. McMullen has
the carpentry and Wickham Bros. the
masonry. Work will begin at once.
Charles Le!lerts is to build at once
neat residence on First avenue, between
Eighth and Ninth streets. 1t will cost
about $4,000. Monroe has the contract
for the carpenter work and Wlckham
Bros. for the mason work.
The Young Man. Afraid, lately secured
by the Globe, feels badly about n para.
graph in the BEE yesterday. He will get
used to the ways of the world after a
time, and learn to catch a joke on the fly,
without allowing his heart to break.
Hans Christoferson was yesterday
fined 50 and costs for humping one of
the patrons of his bar. Hans has been
rather prominent of late in connection
with police court proceedings, but has
always been the party sinned against
The old city hall is being repapered, re,
carpeted and repalnted. The offices and
council chamber will look better, but
even at their best 1t is an old feed store.
new city hall commensurate with the
size of the city is needed, needed bably.
A petition is prepared asking the coun-
Gil to order a sidewalk along the north
SIDE Of Broadway between Thirteenth
and Sixteenth streets The property
owners also want lamp post at the cor
ner of Broadway and Fourteenth streets.
G.. Voss will shortly open jewelry
q asplendid workman, having learned his
trade in Germany. He has been in this
country only three years, having come
from England. AS soon as his fixtures
arrive he will open up.
Pat Duffy was found about o'clock
yesterday morning sleepy drunk and
lying in q vacant lot near Gilbert's ice
houses. He spent the rest of the night in
the police station and was quite indig.
landlord charged him Just as much as if
he had lodged there all night
Edward Gibson. while delivering tele-
graph messages on Broadway yesterday,
was bitten in the leg by dog said to be.
long to the Knepper family The boy
says he was going quietly along the street
attending to his own busin ess, when the
dog suddenly made the attack. He has
petitiOned the city marshal to give the
offending canine dose Of lead.
A special invitation is extended to the
ladies of Council Bluffs to visit The
Manhattan billiard and cigar parlors,
No. Al Broadway. They will receive the
most courteous attention, and can see the
celebrated oil painting that cost $500
They will be given view of the billiard
parlors from private room. Rudio Il
1enawine.
M. Marcus and others are desirous that
the council shall lay out the alley from
Scott street west to Dohany's opera
house, ard along the south side of Indian
creek. The old alley has been cut into
by the creek, and new lines need to be
established, in order to afford ingress
and eeress to considerable property in
that vicinity.
Charles Gregory, the ,well-known
letters patent on an invention which
promises to come into general use and
prove valuable. 1t rs q fire box with the
blowout combined. Its merits are
snving of fuel and durability. 1t is
claimed that one will last five years,
while the ordinary ones burn out in less
than year.
lOuny JuuSe AyieSWOrtn Is 10 nave u
hearing of the case against Frank Busser,
charged with embezZllng from his Omaha
employers. Busscr was selling mats,
clocks, albums, etc, on weekly and
monthly payments. 1t is SAID he failed
to turn over considerable money thus col
lected from customers. About twenty
who thus paid him have been subp9ned
rs witnesses to appear against HIM to day.
Late hours have been excused by MANY
on the pretext that they have been up to
the Salvation army. The suspicious of
wives have been thus quieted by way.
ward husbands who come Struggling
In after midnight Several girls have
given this same excuse to their mlstresses
II is cruel to spoil these excuses, but the
cold and stubborn fact exists that the
Salvation army meetings are all over by
about 10 o'clock.
1t ia proposed to have the city employ
man all the time looking after the In
dian creek sewer ditch guarding against
persons throwing manure, ofal, etc,
into the ditch; arresting offenders; watch.
ing for distractions; preventing persons
from taking away dirt from the banks,
etc. Il. X. Bates is seeking the appoint :
ment, and petition has been prepared